Quake 4 is a game built on the Doom 3 engine. This uses many DX 9.0c features and is a game that has not always ran so well on ATI hardware, being an OpenGL game. Once again I did three two minute runs on Quake 4 on each card and took the average of all my readings from these. I played a fast and furious part of the game that required both internal and external scenes.

I tested both Crossfire and non-Crossfire configurations.

Here are the settings that were found to be optimal for Quake 4 on a Dell 2405FPW display:

Here we can see that Crossfire does incredibly well on Quake 4. I was very impressed with just the base performance of the X1950Pro and Crossfire takes it to another level. This goes to show that multi-GPU is the way to go for Doom 3 engine performance and that nVidia don't have it their own way.

Oblivion

Oblivion is an awesome RPG with a simply huge immersive environment, great graphics and incredibly realistic scenery. This game is currently one of the most testing games that you can buy and it is certainly a test of the high-end cards here. I chose to do a run-through of the Arena part of the game. I spoke to a character, did some magic whilst in a fight and fought in the arena that is pretty huge. Also as well as doing this test I took a wander around to make sure that the benchmark resembled the general gameplay with each card. This benchmark really tests today's cards and ATI cards seem to do very well in this game, with nVidia cards lagging behind slightly.

I tested both Crossfire and non-Crossfire configurations.

Also note that I used the "Chuck" patch to enable AA and HDR for the ATI cards - this improved the gaming experience immensely.

Here are the settings that were found to be optimal for Oblivion on a Dell 2405FPW display:

ATI do well in Oblivion and the X1950 Pro single card is no exception. 2 x AA looks amazing at 1680 x 1050 in single card mode and adding another card lets you really up the details at 1920 x 1200 and 2 x AA. Gaming like this is stunning in an immersive game like Oblivion.

Definitely too late, unless you're on a tight budget. With the onslaught of nVidia's DX10 8800GTX's and GTS's, I don't see them selling very well, especially when nVidia starts slinging mid-range DX10 GT's into the market. (Is the 'GTS' supposed to be the 'GT' version? I'm a bit confused right now.)

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